Well I've heard that you play a few games a year not at your best. If you can do that and still win everything will be just fine.

Playing games like that certainly won't help them get anywhere. And it's beyond the point of a few games now. This team hasn't played well in any of the games they've played at AFH yet this season (2 exhibitions, SEMO, CHAT, SJSU). This playing down to competition trend is not a good one at all.

Not at all. The first 20 minutes sucked just as badly (especially defensively...I showed you the stats). They played to their capabilities for about 7 minutes of this game. It was an utterly terrible all-around performance against one of the worst teams in the NCAA. One of the worst home games played in the Self era to be honest.

Worst of the Self era?

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Playing games like that certainly won't help them get anywhere. And it's beyond the point of a few games now. This team hasn't played well in any of the games they've played at AFH yet this season (2 exhibitions, SEMO, CHAT, SJSU). This playing down to competition trend is not a good one at all.

One of the worst home games, yes. They've only lost seven overall at AFH over that time and they were all against far better teams than one of the worst teams in D1 basketball (SJSU). The sad thing is that the Chatanooga game a few weeks back was just as bad...they seemingly learned nothing from it about needing to play with effort.

One of the worst home games, yes. They've only lost seven overall at AFH over that time and they were all against far better teams than one of the worst teams in D1 basketball (SJSU). The sad thing is that the Chatanooga game a few weeks back was just as bad...they seemingly learned nothing from it about needing to play with effort.

I think Arrowheadhawk is right, just settle down. It's still November. No need to qualify a win or a loss at this point.

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"True bliss is not something you search for, true bliss is already living inside us all, and sometimes it takes a roomfull of others to lead us to the mirror of your soul." - CosmicPal (10-3-03)

Any reasonable person would be after that shit. I hope he can do something to wake them up, but as mentioned, this isn't the first time it has happened so far this season. It may take an actual loss to a mediocre/bad team first to get them to change their attitude (which is likely coming at this rate).

I think Arrowheadhawk is right, just settle down. It's still November. No need to qualify a win or a loss at this point.

A terrible effort is a terrible effort no matter what month it is and it bodes poorly for this group. The win didn't matter and was never really in question (although it became way closer than I ever thought it would be after letting them go on a 20 point run).